diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index d7ecb395d..a68f83bd5 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 ver 0.16.3 (2011/??/??)
 * fix assertion failure in audio format mask parser
+* decoder:
+  - ffmpeg: support lavc 53
 
 
 ver 0.16.2 (2011/03/18)
diff --git a/src/decoder/ffmpeg_decoder_plugin.c b/src/decoder/ffmpeg_decoder_plugin.c
index 29f476ba7..76155eeef 100644
--- a/src/decoder/ffmpeg_decoder_plugin.c
+++ b/src/decoder/ffmpeg_decoder_plugin.c
@@ -160,7 +160,11 @@ ffmpeg_find_audio_stream(const AVFormatContext *format_context)
 {
 	for (unsigned i = 0; i < format_context->nb_streams; ++i)
 		if (format_context->streams[i]->codec->codec_type ==
+#if LIBAVCODEC_VERSION_INT >= AV_VERSION_INT(52, 64, 0)
+		    AVMEDIA_TYPE_AUDIO)
+#else
 		    CODEC_TYPE_AUDIO)
+#endif
 			return i;
 
 	return -1;